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UNDP is therefore supporting the government to develop a large-scale, on-grid renewable energy project with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project will include a GEF grant of $4.4 million, with co-financing amounting to $150 million, mostly from the private sector. The project follows UNDP’s innovative Derisking Renewable Energy Investment (DREI) approach identifies the key risk categories in the renewable energy sector before assisting policymakers to determine the most cost effective set of public instruments that can target those risks.

The low and erratic power supply used to affect the community hospital forcing hospital management to rely on kerosene lantern as source of lighting and petrol generator as their primary source of electricity. As a result, medical personnel were unable to perform any form of surgery at the hospital, referring all patients needing the service to other hospitals.